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http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/vor?target=en%2C1;collection=Perseus%3Acollection%3AGreco-Roman;lookup=Aphrodite;formentry=1;template=;searchText=;alts=1;extern=1;doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126%3B7430%3B2873983;group=work;detail=Herodotus%2C%20Histories;.cgifields=group;.cgifields=alts;.cgifields=type;.cgifields=extern#Herodotus,%20Histories
Perseus Project is your friend.
It seems to me that Herodotus simply believed that Ishtar and Astarte (and possibly Innanna?) were the all the same Goddess, rather than one having come from the others. Personally, I'm not a fan of syncretism, but the ancients certainly were.
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Perseus Project is your friend.
It seems to me that Herodotus simply believed that Ishtar and Astarte (and possibly Innanna?) were the all the same Goddess, rather than one having come from the others. Personally, I'm not a fan of syncretism, but the ancients certainly were.